Hey guys your help and expertise will be greatly appreciated I m desperately in need of assistance here Recently my comp is totally wrecked up programs doesn t run like they ought to and startup is a total havoc My comp is also stuffed with alot of useless info and programs and I think it is in serious need of reformatting However I m a total comp in this and will need your CLEAR and CONCISE step-by-step explaination sigh This guy set up my comp for me bout years ago and when he installed WinXP Pro i kinda remebered he ed up something regarding partitions Think he made another partition and thus my comp has been running WinXP currently How to again? WinXP using am Hard-drive install I Pro my and Reformat on partitions but actually only in fact i m utilising one cuz its showed i only have harddrive c So right now i m pondering how to totally delete EVERYHING from my comp is tat reformat of harddrives I wanna wipe everything out from my comp like its totally cleaned and then starting from scratch reinstall my WinXP Pro again how can i do that And also considering my problem about partitions mentioned above I would wanna merge them together and fully utilise the partitions as after i reformat How can i do that I really have no idea at all I ve tried searching for similar topics but learned little from those replied suggestions nbsp

A:How to Reformat my Hard-drive and install WinXP Pro again? I am currently using WinXP

Hello and welcome to Techspot.

First go into Bios and find the boot menu make sure it is set to boot from Floppy first(if you have a floppy drive) then your cd rom then your Hard drive.

Put your windows Cd in your cd drive and save and exit from Bios.

1. Start your computer from the Windows XP CD-ROM. To do this, insert the Windows XP CD-ROM into your CD drive or DVD drive, and then restart your computer.
2. When you see the "Press any key to boot from CD" message, press any key to start the computer from the Windows XP CD-ROM.
3. At the Welcome to Setup screen, press ENTER to start Windows XP Setup.
4. Read the End-User License Agreement, and then press F8.
5. Follow the instructions on the screen to select and format a partition where you want to install Windows XP.
6. Follow the instructions on the screen to complete Windows XP Setup.

Please note that during setup your computer will reboot. When it does you will be asked to press any key to boot from cd DO NOT press anything otherwise it will just start the setup again from scratch.

I needed to change the letter of one partition from H: to E: and it wasn't a problem.

To my doom, I had a usb dongle plugged in that had the E: letter assigned to it. The drive letter changed but left the partition unreadable (winXP wants to format it and Ubuntu says that the partition is not NTFS anymore).

My primary HDD was failing so I backed it up and replaced it with a larger 1TB drive. After reinstalling everything the new drive is displaying the same size as my old drive and the extra space available is unallocated. I can allocate it as
a separate drive but I find that annoying and would prefer to just have my primary C: drive show up with all of the available space. I formatted the extra space and made it available separately as drive G hoping that I could EXPAND drive C but that option
is not highlighted as selectable on drive C for some reason. Should I just live with this extra space or is there a way to easily combine C and the new G space?

I had the ide hard drive on a comp that i somehow really messed up
and i was wondering if i reformat & reinstall windows xp will it fix it?
also im preety sure i cant do a disc boot cause i have an external hardrive please soeone help i am really in quite a pickle folks

Trying to re-load windows XP on a system after it crashed during a power outtage and windows wouldn't boot.

Hard Drive seems fine and yet once XP begins to load up and get ready to install, it says it can't see the hard drive (even though BIOS lists the hard drive as there). Tried other programs......ie...win 98 and winME and it see's both of those & will load but it's WinXP that came with this system and we want it back on.

It's not the XP CD because we even tried another one of our XP CD's and it gives the same error message.

Any ideas what is going on?

Thanks in advance!

A:WinXP can't see hard drive

How is the drive connected to the system? Is it a sata drive or is it connected via a controller card? If either of these are correct, you will probably need to load the controller driver during setup when prompted.

Once I hooked it up, I booted back into Windows (which is on a 80gig IDE drive) and installed the RAID controllers that came with my mobo (Asus P4P800 DLX). Once I rebooted back into Windows, none of those balloon popups came up so I assumed everything was installed properly.

I go into My Computer, but only my 80 gig (C: ) is listed. Where is my 160 gig?

I went into the Device Manager and it's listed under Disc Drives alongside of my 80gig. It says it's "working properly" and everything, but it's not showing up

What else do I need to do?

A:WinXP and new SATA Hard Drive

Has the drive been Partitioned and Formatted? Did you use the WD utilities disk?

My girlfriends dad asked me a question that I don't know the answer to. He said they have an HP computer which had a 10gig hard drive in it. Well, they bought a 60 gig hard drive and put windows XP on it. He said that the computer is only recognizing 2gig on drive c but it set the rest of the hard drive to drive e. So it basically put a little on drive c and the rest on drive e even though they only have one hard drive. Drive c is full now and they are not able to access drive e. He said he tried to reformat the hard drive but it wont let him. Now can he put it in another computer as a slave drive to reformat it or do you know of a way to fix it in the same computer that its in now? Thank you.

I was trying to ghost(image)a 80 gig hard drive from a 30 gig when the 30 gig winxp os failed. I could read the drive in slave mode and I was trying to manually transfer files and I ran into a problem. To accounts on the old 30 gig have administration rights and won't let get into the files. Is there any way of getting into it? I tried safe mode and the slave drive doesn't even open.

My original setup was Win98 and a 3Gb HDD.I upgraded to WinXp and a 120Gb HDDI also attempted a BIOS upgrade on the Net (but can't determine if it was successful or not) That's basically the only changes made to my PC.

With XP on the 120Gb drive the system works perfectly. However when I connect the 3Gb drive as a slave I get the following :

XP does not loadThe message displayed is, "searching for boot record from floppy, cdrom, ide-0 not found, insert boot diskette in A and press any key when ready"

When I change the ide-0 to ide-1. I get the opening logo for Win98 which then changes to a long message about a missing device file, "vnetbios.vxd" followed by "press any key to continue" Where upon Win98 loads successfully!

So what's going on! Any ideas?

A:Hard Drive (slave) not seen in WinXP

Do you have the jumpers set correctly on each drive? Which IDE cable is each drive connected to?

I am trying to install winxp on a new hitachi hdd in ibm x20 (no internal cd drive) and my hp 9200 series cdrom drive is not recognized. I have tried including cd driver on boot disk but it says that this is not dos driver

I tried installing winxp on this drive in ibm r32 (it has internal cd drive), but the hard drive was not found.

I made the mistake of having one of my computers cleaned and refreshed by Circuit City. Never again.

I have two 40GB hard drives on board, but My Computer is only reading one of the drives, with a split between Drive C: and Drive E: I believe Windows files are on Drive E, but I can't tell if these drives were partitioned.

Hi.This must have been asked before but please bear with me,I want to install win98 and winxp (home) on the one sata HD,how to partition and have access to them,in simple terms would be much appreciated

A:win98 and winxp on the same hard drive

I've done this before but as I suspected, others have written it for me. The secret is to install XP first and make sure the HDD is formatted as a FAT 32 partition. Check out
http://www.petri.co.il/install_windows_98_after_windows_xp.htm
I think that covers it. Good Luck!

I just bought a new 80 gb Western Digital hd. I have WinXP Home edition on CD and want to install it on the new drive.

I read on another site that I need a WinXP boot disk. I downloaded the program from Microsoft and tried creating the 6 disk set. However, no matter which system I use I can't get past 98% created on the first disk. I keep getting a write fault error. I tried different disks but no success.

We recently upgraded my computer including a new hard drive This was actually Hard drive replaced under warranty due hard drive failing Our dilema is this - On H D we first installed quot Windows drive a hard with winxp ntsf formating nd Edition for PC s without Windows quot then quot Windows XP Home Edition Upgrade quot Everything seemed to run smoothly with my system then after the hard drive crashed a week or so later unsure why - On H D in ERROR I wasn t thinking we installed quot Windows XP Home Edition Upgrade quot Without first installing quot Windows nd Edition for PC s without Windows quot Not only that while installing winxp I was asked if I wanted to convert from Fat to NTSF I said yes Ugh Duh and formating a ntsf hard drive with winxp now that I have realized my error and realized the limitations of ntsf I am unable to re-format my hard drive in order to reinstall windows first and then winxp I am told when trying to format that I can t as my drive has been partitioned My sytem is moving so slowly and I m unsure of how to correct my error HELP THANK YOU IN ADVANCE I have attached a system info file nbsp

A:formating a ntsf hard drive with winxp

It seems that Windows still believes that HDD# 1 is still in operation .click Start >control panel >Administrative tools >Computer mgmt.>disk mgmt. Check to see if and how HDD#1 and HDD#2 are configured. If you have nothing on HDD1 Logical drive you Should be able to delete it and go back and format HDD 2 and proceed with 98 cd install & then XP install. For good insight on partioning i suggest you look at your options at http://www.aumha.org/a//parts.htm For install info go to http://www.blkviper.com Hope this helps let is know by posting back.

Hello I got a free Dell Optiplex GX GHz P machine recently I needed to replace some of the capacitors on the motherboard they were leaking bulging but the machine was still running fine before I got it When I got it it had no hard drive or RAM So I put in a GB Western Digital WD hard drive that was running fine in another machine before I received it I also installed a spare MB stick that WinXP drive present install? not Hard in I had A little background on me I don t mess with computers that much I keep my personal machine in good shape so I haven t really even been inside a computer since I built it years ago It s still running W k Back to the present time I ve never installed WinXP before but I figured I Hard drive not present in WinXP install? might as well for the new machine When I first tried to boot from the XP CD it just wouldn t So I figured there were no CDROM drivers for the CDROM to work I made a wxpboot floppy booted from that and was able to run winnt exe in the i directory on the XP CD But when I did that it would immediately tell me something like quot Could not find location for swap file quot and would quit the install before it even started So I figured it couldn t see the hard drive for some reason I eventually updated the BIOS since I read somewhere that this might fix the problem and it did fix it slightly with the BIOS updated I can now boot from the CD without having to first boot from the floppy The weird thing is when I boot from the CD before it even gets to the CD it will first pop up an error saying that the Hard Disk Drive is Not Present or could not be located or something like that Then it follows the normal boot sequence which ends up at the CDROM and WinXP starts installing It copies a bunch of files and then gets to the point where it asks if I want to use the existing partition or create a new one etc I created two partitions and chose to install XP into one GB NTFS partition It formats the drive then copies a bunch more files then gets to the point where it says it must re-boot and to remove any floppies from the drive etc So when it reboots it does the same thing all over again tells me the hard drive can t be found starts installing XP again from the CD asks about the hard drive partitions which I ve done a few times with different size partitions and the partitions are indeed created as they carry over to the next attempt then copies all the files then restarts and can t find the hard drive again but then proceeds to copy files to it Any ideas Thanks nbsp

I just bought a new hard drive today (120 GB Fujistsu) for my laptop computer. I installed it, and I am now trying to boot Windows XP onto it with the CD-ROM. But for some reason, the CD is not booting up and my computer keeps saying "Operating System Not Found." I tried changing the boot order from the hard drive to the CD-Drive, but that didn't help either...I was wondering if anyone know how I could get it to run, or what the problem is.

I have an hp dv6308nr notebook, and the reason I bought the new hard drive was so I could boot WinXP on it and not have to deal with Vista anymore.

g day mates was hopin someone would be so recognized hard - not exteral WinXP SP1 USB drive kind as to help me I recently purchased a USB external hard drive but i can t get it to work on my work laptop its a SimpleTech USB external hard drive laptop Dell Precision M OS Windows XP SP for some reason they told me not to update to SP message received USB device not recognized - One of the USB devices attached to this computer has malfunctioned and Windows does not recognize it etc steps taken to solve it has WinXP SP1 - USB exteral hard drive not recognized a power switch so i ve tried plugging it into the computer before and after turning on the drive i read that taking out the computer battery for a few minutes would work but it didn t somehow my co-worker and i managed to get it to work yesterday he powered WinXP SP1 - USB exteral hard drive not recognized it up plugged it into his desktop it worked ejected it plugged it into my notebook and it worked WinXP SP1 - USB exteral hard drive not recognized we followed the same exact steps today but it still did not work i know the hard drive works because it s worked on every other computer i ve tried any and all help would be much appreciated nbsp

I want to use the WinXP SP2 Professional Install CD to partition, format and install WinXP SP2 in 320G hard drive. I'm using IBM T60 and already update the BIOS. My questions is that this WinXP SP2 supports 320G hard driver?

I ever used this XP to partition a 200G hard drive. But this winxp only found more than 100G spaces and missed the rest of spaces. However if I use the Windows Vista Install CD, then it can find all of the spaces on the 200G hard drive. Therefore I doubt that WinXP SP2 Professional Install CD doesn't support more than 200G hard disk.

A:WinXP SP2 supports 320G Hard drive?

If SP2 is slipstreamed into the CD, it should detect the whole size. XP without any SP can't see beyond 128GB.

If in doubt, look at the files on the CD. You should have a file named win51ip.SP2 if SP2 is slipstreamed.

I'm new so hi to everyone and I hope someone out there can help me.
I have just purchased an external hard drive which works well on the front USB1 ports both reading and writing. However when connected to USB2 ports, I can read from the external hard drive and copy from it but not write to it, for some reason as soon as it starts, the drive dissapears and I get the 'error copying file or folder' message, followed by the 'windows delayed write failed' message.
I hope this makes sense and someone can relate to the problem.

A:winxp sp2 USB2 and external hard drive

Hi, and welcome to the forum!

Do all the rear ports work? If so, try reconnecting the front USB port in question to the front USB headers. It sounds like the problem is there.

Greetings A few days ago while booting my laptop Fujitsu Siemens WinXP Pro SP I recieved an error WinXP hard drive cannot Repair any detect message telling me quot C windows system config system quot was missing or corrupted The first method I tried was booting in safe mode but I got exactly the same error message Then I tried to restore the system last known to function again without any effect Then I tried to repair the whole thing with the Windows Install Repair CD from the manufacturer Initially everything seemed to work well but when chooseing the partiton - for I have no partitions- right after pressing quot r quot the whole thing crashes WinXP Repair cannot detect any hard drive and I get a bluescreen with the message quot BAD POOL CALLER quot STOP x xC x x After that I tried the xp rec con iso http www bleepingcomputer com forums topic html this time I got a new error-message Setup did not find any hard disk drives installed in your computer Then I read somewhere on the web WinXP Repair cannot detect any hard drive about running MemTest to check the RAM That s what I did but even after tests MemTest had not found any error I d be really thankful if somebody could help me solve this problem

A:WinXP Repair cannot detect any hard drive

I suggest you run the hard drive diagnostic tool available from your drive manufacturer.

I am tearing my hair out because i've tried to get this Mac hard drive to work on my winxp and all these programs that are supposed to fix it don't help at all so hopefully you can.

its a Noontec Sun Lite hard drive and its model U235 (if that helps). I tried TweakUI- that didn't work- it just showed that all my drives had red circles with white question marks on them.

then i downloaded MacDrive 7 which is supposed to render any mac drives compatible on windows but that didn't work either- it suggested in its Help section that i needed to get a driver to make it work but i have no idea what that means or where to get one.

please help!

A:Mac hard drive not compatible with winxp- nothing works!

Hi IT dummy and welcome to TSF !

The drive is in the MAC OS file format, XP only recognizes FAT32 and NTFS. If you want to use the drive in both Mac and Windows environments you need to format it in FAT32, else NTFS is the way to go with Windows.

Use this guide to format the drive as FAT32 from a MAC (select the MS-dos file system) : http://www.kenstone.net/fcp_homepage...ing_tiger.html

To reformat the drive within Windows right-click my computer => manage => disk management. You should see the drive with an "unknown file system" message there. Right-click => delete the partition, create a new one and format as FAT32 or NTFS.

Be warned that reformating the drive will erase its content, if there's still data on it hook it on a MAC and backup first. FAT32 file system doesn't support files bigger than 4GB.

Not sure if this is the right forum to post this if not please advise I need some assistance or advice on creating a working copy of a bootable XP hard disk I currently have an old Pent II system with an GB HD loaded with Windows XP I wanted clone Drive... Hard Boot a to WinXP Trying to replace this HD with a GB drive I put the GB drive into the machine set it up as slave partitioned it into an GB drive formatted it for NTFS I left the remainder of the hard drive unallocated used Partition Magic Assigned it as drive E Then I Trying to clone a Boot WinXP Hard Drive... loaded up Retrospect Backup and used the Duplicate Disk option to copy the contents of my C drive with the bootable WinXP over to the new drive E The copy was successful I had tried earlier with Norton Ghost but it would not recognize the new partition for some reason I suspect I need to upgrade to a newer version but since Retrospect seemed to do the copy successfully I used it instead Everything looked fine I could see all the files on the new HD Then I removed the old HD changed the settings on the new drive to Master and put it in the system After powering up Windows appears to start loading However it gets to the point where the whole screen turns blue and there is a Windows XP logo in the center - but it just hangs there It is as if it cannot find the user settings to load Normally if more than one user is defined this is the screen that would be presented for me to select the user however my original system had only one user so it just zipped on past this screen I even tried booting up in Safe mode and normally when doing this I am presented with the Admin user as well as the defined user However even in Safe mode I do not get any user choices to select from just the blue screen with the Windows XP logo So I am wondering if I am going about this the proper way Is it possible to clone a bootable HD to another drive and use the new drive to boot from If so how

A:Trying to clone a Boot WinXP Hard Drive...

Hi,

Sure it is possible. You need to take a look at a program that is free called xxclone and it will work for you.

I have a USB external hard drive that I keep all my documents etc on had it change Hard Drive back - Letter - to External Drive unable changed for years I upgraded from Vista Home to amp Home Premium then had to upgrade recently to Professional to run my Sage Through all these upgrades my ext drive ran fine Occasionally the drvie letter would change if I had something else plugged into the USB this was External Hard Drive - Drive Letter changed - unable to change back always easily corected in disk management by changing the drive path The connection on the case packed up so I had to get the External Hard Drive - Drive Letter changed - unable to change back drive put into a new case now when I plug it in the drive is assigned G instead of F I tried to change the drive letter allocation in Disk Management but it won't let me as the program still thinks I have a second ext hard drive which is labelled F I suspect this has happened because when the usb connection broke the drive was disconnected suddenly instead of a proper eject How do I get Disk Management to remove the inactive drive - i can't find any obvious way - eject delete etc are all missing when I click on tools or tasks If there is no easy way then how do I stop program updates for Adobe etc failing because they can not find the F drive I don't know why they look at that drive anyway Help

A:External Hard Drive - Drive Letter changed - unable to change back

Hi PAMDILL,

Welcome aboard.

Try this:

Download drivecleanup.zip V 0.8.1 from

Drive Tools for Windows

Unzip to a folder. In it you will have two folders Win32 and x64, each containing DriveCleanup.exe for Windows 32bit and 64 bit respectively.

Now unplug all the USB devices from your PC (except of course the Keyboard and mouse), right click on the appropriate DriveCleanup.exe for your system and run it as an administrator.

This will remove all non-present drives from the registry.

Reboot and then plug-in your external drive.

The drive will be installed and hopefully you should be able to assign any free drive letter to it.

I'm booting off my SSD which is drive C:\ and I have games and programs on an extra hard drive which was origanally drive H:\ but after a restart it switched to I:\ and when I go into Disk Management to change it Drive H:\ isn't there.

A:Hard drive isnt allowed to change the correct drive letter

Hi KiityCancer,

What you say makes perfect sense. So, if a restart changed the drive letter to I, then H won't be there. Why not just leave it at I or is there more to this story...

Hello Recently bought a new Laptop D External files Change Partitioned Hard to back up from Drive Drive? and went through all the setting up process one of which was Change back up files from D Partitioned Drive to External Hard Drive? Windows back up At the time I just went for the partitioned drive option but after a week I've decided to buy an external Hard drive for my back ups instead My questions are Can I easily change the destination of the back up files Do I just delete everything on Drive D once I'm backing up to an external Hard Drive or will Windows give me this option when I change to external Hard Drive The Back up is done on a schedule so how do I get on when the date passes Will it ask me to plug my external Hard Drive in the next time I boot up Finally I'd like to back up our Desktop too running on Vista Can I just partition the external Hard Drive and keep our laptop and Desktop backed up on the same hard drive Cheers Matthew

A:Change back up files from D Partitioned Drive to External Hard Drive?

Hi Matthew -

You don't need to partition the HD to keep your different backups on it.

The WindowsImageBackup file needs to be named only that and in the root of the external to reimage from the booted DVD or Repair CD, however you can click on it to see which PC it is for.

I don't like the way Win7 file backup works so I drag the active User folder from each computer here to external once per month, then update the backup image every few months. You may decide to go Manual after trying the automated backup, since you'll need to move the external to catch the backup anyway.

F is assigned to a drive that does not exist and never has. I am confused. I only have one CD drive and it says now that I have 2 even though the one addressed as F doesn't have any information. If I click on F it says "Insert Disk"

On my computer I have two different folders in my hard drive: a WINDOWS and a WINXP. They are 5.9 and 3.2 GB respectively, and they all have nearly the same material, WINDOWS holding a bit more. A few months ago, my computer got a virus and it resulted in me getting a completely new operating system, so to speak. I created a new OS so that when I turn on the computer, the boot menu asks me which operating system to use (they both say Windows XP Home 2003). My question is, are WINXP and WINDOWS both copies of my Operating system, from earlier, and one from now? Would I be able to delete one of them? If so, which one?

Also, if anyone would be so kind, what are some ways to save Disk space? I'm at about 60/75 GB, but I'd really like to save more.

Thanks a lot,Jonathan

A:WINDOWS and WINXP (and saving Hard Drive Space)

If you are running out of space, you should consider getting a bigger drive or it will continue to be a problem. You can see where space is being used with one of these:

Disk PieTreeSizeXinorbisAssessTreeDirectory Size Calculator

For the Windows folders, go to Start > Run, and type:

%systemroot%

The folder that opens is the one that you are now using, so you can delete the other one.

To remove the extra entry on your boot menu, Run:

sysdm.cpl

Under the Advanced tab, choose the Startup options button, then Edit. Remove the line that refers to the OS you no longer have. Or, Run: msconfig and under the Boot tab, check all paths.

My pc is working well after a clean install on a new sata seagate hd.question is: i skipped the step ( Press F6 if you need to install a third party SCSI or RAID driver)did i miss a crucial step in the install and possible endanger my pc in the future?

A:Solved: reinstall winxp on new sata hard drive

If the drivers for the SATA controller are included with XP, and it boots, then you should be fine.

i've recently tried to install ubuntu At first GRUB did not recognise windows on a different partition until I had to manually edit it when i attemped to boot into Windows XP Home HELP damaged led unistallation to WinXP Ubuntu Hard-drive, Edition there was a critical error that mentioned something Ubuntu unistallation led to damaged WinXP Hard-drive, HELP about my RIT and FAT partition unfortunatly i did not care to write down the exact message at that time i tried reinstalling ubuntu a couple Ubuntu unistallation led to damaged WinXP Hard-drive, HELP more times to see if it would change the results but nothing i had to constantly add a new line to my GRUB duel boot system When i was running Windows I had RestoreIT installed onto my PC this software application always loaded before Windows and had a chance to pop-up before the this critical message error it mentioned that my Windows partition had been modified by non-Windows OS After i received that message i had completely unistalled Ubuntu but since GRUB was still on my computer i deleted all existing partitions except for my origional WinXP's partition with the information i am trying to recover and reinstalled windows Now with WinXP installed i check my old hard drive and there are only files and they are all unrecognized by Windows LAYERS BACKFILE FRLOADER RIT LAYERS LAYERS LAYERS VBBASIC RIT VBFBP DAT file VBFBP DAT file VBFBP DAT file all of these files equal up to GiB so im almost positive that this is my old hard-drive but i dont know why this happend and how to open them or in any way recover my information I have a back-up of these files so im willing to try anything Oh and despite haveing RestoreIT I did not back up any of my save-points onto removable media

A:Ubuntu unistallation led to damaged WinXP Hard-drive, HELP

Hello & welcome to TSF,

I have seen this befor when one of my friends installed Ubuntu on his system

he ended up having to manually erase the whole drive & start from scratch

Killdisk is a great 3rd party eraser & free and can be downloaded from

Just added a new hard drive (Maxtor 6Y120P0 - 120GB). I can see it in Device Manager (this device is working properly) also in my CMOS set up (auto detect) but cannot see it in Windows Explorer and also when I'm in the DOS prompt.

I delete it in Device Manager and did a re-scan of my computer for newly added hardware and windows XP recognized and installed the new hard drive and even flashed a message that the new hardware is installed and is ready for use. But still it's not being displayed as a local disk in windows explorer. I have 1 local hard disk (main) and 1 CD drive and 1 DVD drive and I'm trying to add this new hard disk as my slave.

I use Windows XP service pack 2

hoping for your prompt reply and thanks in advance.

Yours Truly,Almon

A:New Hard Drive not Found in Windows Explorer - WinXP

You need to format a hard disk before it can be used!

Just right click my computer/Manage/Storage/disk management. Highlight the new disk and click format.

A hard disk fresh from factory can be used for other systems like Linux, Mac etc. Can we expect the disk manufacturer to know it is for Windows files in you case? Even if he hits the bull eye and format it for NTFS files you may tell him off and say you prefer FAT32.

I'm trying to install WinXP SP onto a new Gb SATA drives using a MSI P N SLI motherboard and when the PC boots the BIOS sees two SATA hard drives including the correct size but when I run the WinXP install CD I get stuck when the install CD claims it can find no hard drives to install WinXP on I have the install CD from MSI which has the ide SATA drivers on it and I've tried to use nlite to integrate the SATA drivers into the install CD but the resulting iso file still cannot get past the quot cannot find any hard drives quot point The MSI driver CD includes ide SATA files including an inf file which nlite adds to Hard clean Can't get install on SATA Drive WinXP the i NLDRV folder and strips all the Can't get clean WinXP install on SATA Hard Drive last characters off each file e g NVATA INF becomes NVATA IN The only files on the MSI disk that contain a txtsetup oem file Can't get clean WinXP install on SATA Hard Drive are the RAID drivers so I cannot make a floppy disk to insert via the F route and as stated above cannot get the nlite iso Can't get clean WinXP install on SATA Hard Drive SATA drivers to be seen by the install CD I've been going around in circles with MSI tech support trying to have them provide a txtsetup oem file for the non-RAID SATA drives but either they don't understand or they are just avoiding the solution because they have no solution They tell me to download the install driver file same as on the MSI CD from their website and load it - but I can't do that until Windows is installed which I can't do I can't seem to get through to them that to run the MSI driver CD WinXP has to be ALREADY installed which I can't do Can anyone help steer me to a solution

A:Can't get clean WinXP install on SATA Hard Drive

Hello jpegman

If you can`t slipstream the drivers all you can do is to go into the BIOS and change the SATA operation mode to RAID Auto/ATA.

Good afternoon, I am having issues with my computer. When windows loads I am getting a "checking file system on C:" screen, the screen reads as follows:

Checking file system on C:The type of the file system is NTFS.The volume is dirty

Chkdsk is verifying...65 percent complete (this is the progress point where i get a bsod)

The bsod reads:c000021a Unknown Hard ErrorUnknown Hard Error

The machine is a Dell Dimension 4600C, Win XP, no significant changes software or hardware, I have kept it up to date with software and driver updates. Have had some recent virus, maleware issues which i had been trying to clean right prior to the meltdown. Appreciate any help, thank you.

Hi I m considering trying to clone my current hard drive to a new drive so I can replace it without having to install Windows XP again I posted about that here http www bleepingcomputer com forums topic html I read it s possible to clone the old hard drive to a new one using something like Easeus Todo or Easeus Disk Copy then just unplug the old drive plug the new one in and it should work like nothing has changed Also I read that afterward you can switch back and forth between the old and new drives without any problems Is that correct Seondly in the event that I can t clone my drive successfully and get the system to boot off of the new drive the OEM WinXP new hard Install to drive you old still the on Fresh Can - back switch one? second course of action I was thinking was to do a Fresh Install WinXP OEM on new hard drive - Can you still switch back to the old one? fresh installation of Windows XP I have Windows XP Home with SP and the disk that came with my comptuer is an OEM disk quot only for distribution with a new PC quot I was told I would be able to activate a new installation of Windows using the same Product Key on this computer even if I change the hard drive just as long as I don t change the motherboard My main question is if I do this and get a fresh installation of WinXP activated successfully on the new drive would I still be able to switch back and boot from the old hard dirve if I needed to Or would activating a fresh install of WinXP on a new hard drive deactivate the installation on the old drive

A:Fresh Install WinXP OEM on new hard drive - Can you still switch back to the old one?

This is a real curley one, (meaning difficult)

I have never been able to successfully Clone XP, but can give you some Guidence for reinstalling XP from the OEM Disk that should work for you. If you haven't made any changes, except for the HDD you should be able to Boot from either one, just by converting the other HDD from a Slave to Master and converting the Master to Slave, but you don't really need to do that? You can interchange Data from either one to the other, if the two are set up as Master and Slave?

My friend and I are having trouble with his Dell 4600 Dimension. It's acting up badly and we think it's due to malicious spyware or something similar. So we want to format the hard drive, but the problem is he has none of the original CDs that came with it, including his WinXP disk. We want to try putting Win2000 on it, but we have no idea how that might turn out. I've never formatted a Dell before and I don't know how picky it is to that kind of stuff. Can anyone lend us some sage advice?

Hello After a brief exchange with Muppy in another thread on this forum I came to the sad realization that my computer had become infected with a backdoor trojan and the best thing to do under the circumstances was to reformat my hard drive I had a few questions about the reformatting process that Muppy advised me to ask here since the people here are more well-versed in such things I ve never done this before so I want to make absolutely certain that I don t do anything wrong I have a Windows XP system recovery CD that came with my computer whose purpose infected badly Solved: drive hard WinXP a Reformatting according to the text written on it is quot to reinstall the operating system programs and drivers quot Is this disc all that I need in order to reformat my hard drive Also on the subject on backing up my files I have a secondary internal hard drive drive F which I use to store backup copies of my more irreplaceable files If I backed up all the files and folders I wanted to save to Solved: Reformatting a badly infected WinXP hard drive that drive would the reformatting process effect them in any way Also to keep my computer from getting re-infected are there any files that I shouldn t copy to my backup hard drive aside from most of the contents of C Windows Incidentally the way I ve unplugged my computer s modem line so that Solved: Reformatting a badly infected WinXP hard drive it can t get re-infected immediately after the reformatting process is over Any advice would be greatly appreciated Thanks in advance EDIT And I should have mentioned that my computer is a Gateway Pentium running WinXP SP nbsp

Let my brother borrow my comp, and this is what happens. Now I need to uninstall it without killing my system, and i think its caused a lot of unstability in Windows, including moving my internet explorer into a different folder. What do I do? Also I believe I have a trojan or virus but I can't seem to find them. HEEEEEEEEEELP!

Hdwr Dell Dimension WinXP Pro System failed with no warning or performance problems not disk drive boot error Pro: hard ?WinXP found" "Primary Can't recall a single warning sign Current situation Can't get past BIOS setup Drives are not recognized an't access CD Rom drive or Hard Drive so I can't use solutions that are CD based Attempted fixes - battery tested ok but I replaced it anyway -downloaded MS XP boot disk It renamed the ?WinXP Pro: boot error "Primary hard disk drive not found" CD drive R and I could read CD's but ?WinXP Pro: boot error "Primary hard disk drive not found" it is in Win format dos and could not create swap files to access I files - tried floppy boot with selected I files no good - tried switching boot order - tried unplugging ribbon cables and power cables -tried holding on button for sec to reset The hard drive is spinning and the light is on The CD drive starts as if in auto run mode but then stops without reading boot files The CD drive will run from the Microsoft XP boot floppy so the drive is ok Someone a lot smarter than I must have the solution No I don't want to buy a new box right now Thx Ed

A:?WinXP Pro: boot error "Primary hard disk drive not found"

Hi, Ed from San Diego,

A couple of things that might help.You say "The CD drive starts, as if in auto run mode, but then stops without reading boot files. The CD drive will run from the Microsoft XP boot floppy, so the drive is ok.". This ain't necessarily so ! Just because the drive is spinning it doesn't mean it is reading. Can you borrow a drive and swap it for your own ?It's not holding in the 'On' button for 30 seconds that resets it, it is turning the power off from the computer for 30+ seconds that does this. You can turn it off either at the wall or at the switch on the back of the computer's power supply, both have the same effect.

I will admit that I am as much in the dark as you are about what has caused your problem. I have had computers crash and / or just stop running for a number of reasons over the years, but never a time when the BIOS refused to recognise drives. I do have the situation on my own computer, where I have three HDDs two of which are the same model, and the BIOS occasionally has got confused about which is which. All this results in is a message at boot time 'No operating system found'. And all this entails is going into the BIOS and swapping the drive order around.

It appears that my motherboard and CPU are broken, and I may buy a bare-bones system (case, motherboard, CPU). Assuming that all of existing parts are compatible, is it possible to just switch in the HD, RAM, and video card? Like a plug-and-play with hardware.

Could you please provide detailed information information on how to reconfigure an existing Windows installation to work with a new and different motherboard and CPU?.

So I'm using the same system drive on a new motherboard. I am not using the pre-installed OEM version of Windows, but rather an after-market purchased version of Windows XP Professional SP2.

I have a new Envy 17 with a SSD 258 drive and a 1 TB std hard drive. I am trying to get the computer to boot on the 1TB drive. When I go into setup I am unable to change boot drives. On startup I have to press esc key and select F9 and then select the 1TB drive to get it to boot to the 1TB drive. I have my windows 10 pro installed on my 1TB drive. The laptop came with the Windows 10 installed on the SSD drive. I want the laptop to automatically boot to the 1TB drive and can not figure out how to change the configuration. Help. Thanks

i did have two hard drives in my computer two ide hard drives one of the ide hard driver are going out and i bought i 160 gb sata drive so i could rma my ide hard drive i loaded my ghost to the 160Gb sata but it is still booting form my primary ide hard drive does any one know how to fix this

thanks

bob

A:Change hard drive and need help

i think you need to go into your bios and change it to boot of you new drive

I have put a new hard drive on my Dell Dimension 8300, initially it was for extra storage, my C drive is 40GB and is now full, i copied my C drive using Norton Ghost onto my E drive 80GB. I need to know how can i tell my system to boot from my E drive.

A:Hard Drive Change

Set the 80GB as the C drive and the old 40GB as the E drive. Are these drives IDE or SATA drives? IDE drives have Master/Slave/ CS (Cable Select) physical jumpers and SATA drives do not have these jumpers

One things I have never been able to get right is changing a hard drive with Windows on without reloading Windows.

Let's say for example I have a laptop with one drive on it (and let say only one partition) and I would like to put in a bigger hard drive. How do I do that without reloading windows.

Other than copying all files over to the new drive and setting that partition with the Windows files on the new drive as the active one, what else do I need to do?

A:Change Hard Drive

hi gmansa, a lot of members on here have had success using macrium reflect Macrium Reflect Backup and Hard Disk Imaging for Windows 7, Vista, XP and Server 2003/2008 or you could use a disc imaging software like acronis true image

I have just attempted to swap a hard drive from my dell to a compaq that someone gave me. When I power on the computer that the hard drive is in I get a blank screen. Did I do something wrong? Please help.

A:Hard drive change

Hi wcheard,

Welcome to Techspot!
Sometimes when you swap a hard drive over to another PC it doesnt like the hardware change.

Try the following:Remove the HDD from the Compaq and re-boot the pc. Even though the HDD is missing you should still get a picture on the screen.If you DONT get a picture with the HDD removed the the Compaq either has a) a faulty mobo OR b) there may a problem with the graphics card. This all dpeends if you have a graphics card installed or if you are using onboard VGA.

My computer's Windows XP OS recently "crashed" so I put in a new hard drive with Windows ME OS. I've installed everything with the replacement hard drive, but for some reason I can't get it to recognize my other hard drives that have information written from the XP OS. The only way I have found to get my old hard drives to work is to reformat them, but that requires deleteing the information on the drives- something I absolutely cannot do. Is there any way I can get these to work with the new OS? The 2 extra hard drives are a 160GB Western Digital and a 120GB Maxor (formerly my boot-up drive)

I learned that for whatever reason, the original settings have been changed and it's probably the reason for my headaches with it.

So I went into setup, but I just don't see where I can change the parameters. I'm pretty sure that if I can do this, the drive will finally be able to defrag, and it really needs it. It hasn't been drefraged since January, easily.

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A:How to change USB Hard drive icon ?

Hi

Your posting is a little bit confusing?
Which external HDD you have exactly?

As far as I know for drives the icon can only be changed in Windows registry but is this really so important? I doubt this?

hello all!i encountered a problem after installing a new hard drivei have 3 HDs (including the one i just installed) C: wich is where windows is installed and E: and F: for dataafter installing the new HD ( F: )and formatting it, my system stopped booting, it just hangs, so i changed the boot order and it boots fine, but not through C: but through E:i also found new BOOT folder in E:, wich wasnt there beforei believe that the HD the system boots from should be the one Windows is installed on ( C: ) so if im not mistaken (very likely i am) i should have C: marked as BOOT and SYSTEM in the Disk Management windowi searched a bit but cannot find a way to fix this, help would be greatly apreciated!

this is a screenshot of my Disk Management window

A:change system hard drive

Welcome to the forum, I don't know enough to help but I did notice from your screenshot that you have 2 Active partitions so perhaps that is the problem. Wait until one of the experts comes along to help I just wanted to welcome you and point out my observation.

Hi. I have two hard drives in my computer. One is 320GB and it is almost filled up. I also have a 1TB hard drive that I bought recently. All the programs I install automatically choose the C drive (320GB). How can I change the default hard drive to the A drive (1TB)? I know you can just change the install directory when your installing the program but it would be a lot easier if it automatically chose the A drive. Some programs don't even give you a choice where to install it.

A:Change default hard drive

If your 320 GB drive is filled up with user data, like pictures, songs, etc, just move them over to your new drive and use that for data storage. If the 320 GB drive is filled up with apps and games, you could either uninstall what you don't need, or clone the 320 GB to the 1 TB drive.

Hi - I thought Drive Hard Change to Need Letter that I posted this question this morning but in looking Need to Change Hard Drive Letter through today s questions I don t see my post Maybe it was moved Anyway here it is yr old Sony VAIO desktop with XP Pro The floppy a drive Need to Change Hard Drive Letter broke and I Need to Change Hard Drive Letter physically removed it I bought an external drive USB which became b obviously before I moved the a I know all the floppy jokes but I m old and I still use them I also come across situations when they are called for I can t make Microsoft s boot disks etc Neither a nor b show up in Disk Management so I can t change the letters that way I ve actually tried to remove all the places the a phantom driver shows up I ve hit quot uninstall quot in the device manager but that only works until I turn the computer off and back on The computer says that it quot found new hardware quot I ve exhausted my knowledge here Some programs tell me to insert a floppy disk and when I put it in the b drive it isn t recognized I never go in the registry because frankly it scares me I ve been in the BIOS for very minor things Can anyone please help me to get this floppy drive to become my a drive or maybe just get rid of every trace whatsoever of a since I deleted the driver everywhere I could get the a driver back if I need to I was stupid and not thinking about maybe needing the driver I figured the b driver will come with me when I call it a Thank You Dawn nbsp

GOOD MORNING I AM A NEWBE HERE SO THANKS FOR ALL YOUR HELP I HAVE TRANSFERED WINDOWS XP FROM A HARD DRIVE TO A LARGER DRIVE AND ALL IS WELL BUT EACH TIME I BOOT UP THE COMPUTER I NEED TO SELECT THE DRIVE FROM TO HOW CAN I CHANGE IT IN THE BIOS MY COMPUTER IS AN COMPAQ EVO D OS Name Microsoft Windows XP Home Edition Version Service Pack Build OS Manufacturer Microsoft Corporation System Name ROYL System Manufacturer Compaq System Model Evo D System Type X -based PC Processor x Family Model Stepping GenuineIntel Mhz BIOS Version Date Compaq Y v SMBIOS Version Windows Directory C WINDOWS System Directory C WINDOWS system Boot Device Device HarddiskVolume Locale United States Hardware Abstraction Layer Version quot xpsp - quot User Name ROYL ROY L SEIDELL Time Zone Eastern Daylight Time Total Physical Change Hard Position Drive Memory MB Available Physical Memory MB Total Virtual Memory GB Available Virtual Memory GB Page File Space GB Page Change Hard Drive Position File C pagefile sys

I have a new computer that runs W7 Prof 64 bit. I noticed when I got it the following.

Drive C (W7 on it and it's the boot drive)
Drive E (second hard drive
Drive D (CDROM drive)
Hard Drives are both 1TB SATA3
What is on the E drive is data I copied there.
I would like to change the E drive to D and the CDROM drive D to E.
This way my hard drives will be C and D and the CDROM will be E.
I have no idea how to do this. Can anyone help me?

Keithet

A:Change Hard Drive Letter

You can do that in Disk Management. Right click on the drive(s) and you will see. But you will first have to assign a different letter (e.g. M) to E or D to free up that letter. If you have data on E, it may lose the path though.

I'm cloning my hard drive onto another one, but I'm not exactly sure what the process is for setting the cloned one as my No1 drive. My old one is on its last legs and I'd rather use it for my less important things. What will happen when I disconnect my old one from my computer and only have the new one on it?

Will everything be literally the exact same on the new one? Same partition names and everything? And if so, can I then reconnect my old one and use its 2 partitions just like normal in addition to the 2 new cloned ones in My Computer? And won't those partition names conflict?

Any help on what I should do for this transition would be greatly appreciated, thanks

A:How do I change to a cloned hard drive?

If cloning goes OK you will have exact copy of old hdd on a new one.Then you can disconnect an old drive from the mobo and the system will boot from the new drive.

I am looking to upgrade my motherboard, but keep my current hard drive and the content on it (due to having alot of programs and software plugins on it). I am running Windows 7 32 bit with and AMD Phenom II x2 CPU. My current motherboard is one I went to when my compaq desktop died a while ago and I wanted to upgrade my operating system and hard drive capacity anyway. So, the first link below is the motherboard I have and the second link is the motherboard I am looking at upgrading to (since the two are somewhat comparable in specs/give or take a few things). Any suggestions or help is welcome. Thanks!

I have a Presario 715 on XP and the hard drive is making noise. I need advice on how to make a clone of the drive before it dies.Options: 1) buy a usb to usb cable and somehow copy all the c drive to another pc. Will this work and how do I do it, dos xcopy?2) Buy a zip drive. I have about 9 gig in use on the old drive.3) Put the new drive in and do a "quick restore" and then copy all the files from the other PC? 4) Is there a way to write multiple cd's to make a backup of the entire c drive? I have NT backup loaded.5) Buy an external drive and move everything to that first?Any comments on these ideas would be appreciated.Thanks

A:advice on hard drive change?

buy a new drive install an operating system on it use it as master,set up the old as slave and drag all your files over.

Basically i brought an OEM version of windows the other day ,Installed fine and all was going well till my hard drive started playing up. So iv invested in a new hard drive but....how do i go about uninstalling this copy and putting it on the new drive, Because i was told it could only be installed on one pc ?

I bought a seagate hard drive a while back and it has worked fine for the last year. Recently, the icon for my hard drive was replaced by a broadcom SD card icon. i have tried changing it back using .inf, using RegEdit, uninstalling Broadcom card reader, and uninstalling the HDD. None of those methods have worked. The crappy icon is kinda annoying. Is there a way to change it back or do i have to factory reset my computer/portable HDD

A:How do I change the icon for my Seagate Hard Drive

Hello Battleman, and welcome to Eight Forums.

You might see if using either option in the tutorial below may allow you to change the drive's icon to what you like.

I have built a computer for video editing and named the hard drives C for the main drive M for the drive holding designating do hard change ? drive (V:) How I letter my music P for the drive for photos and I named the drive to store my videos V However How do I change letter designating hard drive (V:) ? when I tried to write path to the V How do I change letter designating hard drive (V:) ? drive I was told V is an invalid path I suppose because of the confusion with a followed by a which would give you How do I change letter designating hard drive (V:) ? a which can be confused with V but is not exactly the same I went to My Computer and right clicked on the V drive and clicked on quot rename quot in the drop down menu and changed the name to quot Storage quot but the V persisted Then I renamed again and named the drive quot Storage S quot and now in quot My Computer quot the drive is shown as quot Storage S V quot When writing a path to put videos on this drive can I use either S or V to get videos into this drive Is there some way to remove the V Thanks

A:How do I change letter designating hard drive (V:) ?

My guess is that V: might be in conflict with one of your removable media drives. On my new DELL with a multimedia card, I have a V: which is associated with a SD/mini-mmc/rs drive. There are also drive letters S:, U:, and Z: defined for various things (Z: is my CD/DVD drive).

The way that I found to remane drives and drive letter assignments is a disk management tool. Go to the Start menu, right click on Computer and click on manage. That opens up a menu to a lot of things. The thing you want is near the bottom called disk management.

Once you have the disk management screen displayed, you can right click on any drive volume to get a menu of things to do including change drive letter.

I have a SEVERE problem. My computer stopped recognizing my hard drive, so I took it over to a friend's and hooked it up to his computer, where I was allowed access to my hard drive. However, the vast majority of my files (pictures, word documents, etc) were stored under my personal folder, which was protected by the basic Windows XP password, and now it will not let me into the folder, as I haven't logged into the account it is used to seeing.

I know all my information is there, but I can't get to it. How can I solve this problem and retrieve my information? It may sound melodramatic but I seriously feel like a significant portion of my life is stuck in that folder, and I'd do nearly anything to get it back. Any help would be genuinely appreciated as I am in great need. Thanks!

A:Hard Drive change/password problem

Into safe mode and login as Administrator and then change the user functions on that drive

Hey guys, I recently recieved a new External hard drive. The other day, I changed the icon on it, no problem. I've done it millions of times. Then last night, I formatted the drive because I wanted to get rid of this annoying virtual drive that would also come up when I plugged it in. So, I formatted it and now it seems I can not change the icon. I do all the autorun.inf etc. Here's a screenshot

http://jarrodjs.rumkin.com/comp.jpg

Also you can see my other drive icons are gone. Ive reset the icon db before and no other icons have this problem but im not sure if I need to reset it again to get the rest back.

But my external hd is top priorite.
Thanks!!!

A:Change External Hard Drive Icons

Hello Jarrod, and welcome to Vista Forums.

You might see if deleting the desktop.ini files and seeing if one of the methods in the tutorial below will allow you to change the drive icon to what you want instead.

I'm working on a computer that currently has virtually no space left on the C:drive, but has over 20GB empty space on the other hard drive partition, the F:drive.

It's a shared computer, and unfortunately people keep downloading programs and other media onto the C:drive, despite my attempts to keep it's volume down. Now I get messages that pop up telling me that my C:drive is dangerously full and could effect the performance of my computer.

Do you know of any way that I could change the size of my hard drive partitions so that I can add more space to my C:drive and decrease the space of my F:drive?

I appreciate your help.

A:How do I change the size of my hard drive partitions

you could use partition magic to resize the drives. this is a trial version, but i cannot see what, if any, limitations it has. it is always very wise to back up data before you mess around with the partition sizes. i have used partition magic a good few times and never had a problem with it.

another option is to uninstall some software and reinstall on F:\ or whichever partition has the empty space.

there could be alot of trash on the C:\ drive as well. i use this program to view what folders are using the most space and very often you'll find user created files, that can be deleted, sitting on the HD.

Hi Everyone here was so great last time I needed help so I am asking again I am not great with all the technical stuff so please keep that it mind but from the help I got here I was able to get a new hard drive and do a complete new install so thanks again This time I am trying to help my mother - her hard drive crashed and she needs to have it replaced like I did before She has a Dell Inspiron MT and the hard drive is a Western Digital Caviar Blue WD AAJS GB RPM MB Cache SATA Gb s quot Internal Hard Drive -Bare Drive I need to know if I can replace that with a Western Digital WD AAEX GB RPM MB Cache SATA Gb s quot Internal Hard Drive -Bare Drive that I found on NewEgg love them I want to get her more GB and the WD AAJS is out of Hard drive question Solved: change stock Any help would of course be Solved: Hard drive change question greatly appreciated nbsp

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Under Windows Explorer 'Computer' all of the my drives and storage devices are listed. I am trying to change the icon associated with my esata external hard drive. Anyone know how to do this?

I just purchased a new SATA Hard Drive which is much faster than the IDE Disks I have now. I will be using Norton Ghost to move my Operating System and Program Files to the new drive (thanks to the folks on this forum who helped me figure that out). I assume I will have to change to bootable drive in the BIOS, but are there any physical connections I'll have to change inside my PC?Thanks!!

Somehow, I changed the location of my external hard drive from the I: drive to the H: drive. When I click on my external hard drive under the H: drive, all it shows is the H: hard drive shortcut. When I click on the shortcut, it says that the H: drive cannot be located.

I tried to find it under the I: drive, but it cannot find an I: drive.

Is there any way I can change it back to my I: drive? Will I be able to get my backup files back?

Thanks in advance.

A:How do I change the location of my external hard drive from H: to I:

Hello Wolf, and welcome to Seven Forums.

Yes, the tutorial below can help show you how to change the drive letter back to I.

I have been having some trouble lately with my home computer, every so often the Pc will crash with a blue screen, with white text saying that a physical memory dump bios is being completed or something like that, i turn it off then back on again and it works fine, however each time this happens my free space on my hard drive reduces!

Sometimes i will have the correct amount which should be something like 123gb free, but sometimes i turn it on and check and i only have 4gb or so free? could something have become dissconnected or something like that? the pc itself works fine but it just seems to crash when i am either trying to load too much at once, or most of the time this occurs when i am unplugging my wireless adapter, or even repairing the connection which does close quite regularly.

Hi, My computer didn't work anymore. I brought it to a tech guy who told me the hard disk was dead. He replaced it and he installed windows 7 on it. It turns out it is an illegal version of windows 7. Since I bought a windows 8 licence with my computer, I'd like to install it back on my computer. How can I install windows 8 back ? Best,

This hard drive has many important pics on it I went under Command Prompt as administrator and did driver detail on it Besides saying that the Current Read Only State and the Read Only saying Yes beside them the Location Path says unavailable a to Read is Hard that? Drive there External Only, change way To make it really weird sometimes when I first plug it in I can copy External Hard Drive Read Only, is there a way to change that? stuff from it but only for like a fraction of a minute and than External Hard Drive Read Only, is there a way to change that? it wont let me into files I have another hard drive of the same brand and size empty and awaiting to save files from this hard drive also when I will try to get on the files External Hard Drive Read Only, is there a way to change that? some of them will ask me if I want to format the disk I will say cancel and it will say data error cyclic redundancy check I have read else where that this means the disk is failing I want to change the drive from read only to a way to get the stuff off the hard drive Oh the hard drive is a GB Free Agent Go Flex Seagate USB so is the one I have ready for it Also a little bg when it first died I couldnt even get on far enough to see files On time I did get on about weeks later and was able to see all my files were still there Than my compy died since I didnt realize it had come unplugged from the wall After that once again I couldnt get on it and it was reading as RAW Than this past week all of a sudden it was reading as NFTS showing the properties so I can see that the same amount of GB is still the same as before the drive went weird and letting me get on to the first part and sometimes into a few of the files but only ones with sub folders Thats also when the Read Only started up Okay I think I thought of everything Really I'm just trying away to save my pics vids and docs on there I have wmv avi doc txt jpeg wps and I think thats it maybe a different image type file

A:External Hard Drive Read Only, is there a way to change that?

Create a bootable pendrive with Lucid Puppy on it, boot from it and check whether you can access and retrieve your files from the external HDD.

I've had this PC running the same way for about a year now (everything working fine) in the past week i noticed that 1 of my 4 hard drives started going really slow.I checked all my IDE Channel and realized that the hard drive had changed to PIO Mode 4. I select it and check the 'Enable DMA' box and hit OK. the properties dialog closes but when i reopen it it's set back to PIO Mode 4.Any ideas?

A:Hard Drive changes to PIO Mode 4 - can't change back to DMA

It should not be any slower on PIO 4 than it is on any DMA setting, they are capped at the same rate.

Ultra DMA would be different, doubling the transfer rate.

Could you help us out by:1. Filling out your system specifications entirely?2. Telling us if you were doing anything when this happened?

I just got my replacement H.D. back for my HTPC and I ghosted the bad drive and now reinstalled everything onto it. I had to set the drive letter to F: because I already had a drive C: on the computer that I was doing the cloning on. The computer that needs the replacement drive is looking for drive C:.

How can I fix this?

Joe

A:Ghosted Hard Drive (How to change back to C:)

If you are running XP go to computer management - disk management and you can reassign drive letters there by right clicking on the drive you want to reassign. You may have to do some moving of drive letters to get everything back to where you want it/or it shoulod be.

Does anyone know how to change the hard drive on the pavillion 15-r012na. Having removed the screws from the back, it still won't come off. I need to remove this in order to establish what new hard drive to buy. Then I need to know how to fit it.

A:change the hard drive on the Pavillion 15-r012na.

Hi, Have you removed the screws and covers hidden under the rear rubber feet - see Page 61/62 of your Maintenance & Service Guide. The procedure for removing/replacing the HDD starts on Page 67. Regards, DP-K

I have win7 on the HD that boots up now. I also have another HD with the old vista set up. How can I change the bios so the vista HD will boot? tried a few things in bios but nothing changed. have sata system. the vista hd is listed as slave.

really what I want is to boot into the vista setup. I can get data files but want to see a program setting for access to internet (if that's possible), and that requires opening the program on vista, not the win7.

Msongs

A:change hard drive boot order??

Quote: Originally Posted by msongs

hello,

I have win7 on the HD that boots up now. I also have another HD with the old vista set up. How can I change the bios so the vista HD will boot? tried a few things in bios but nothing changed. have sata system. the vista hd is listed as slave.

really what I want is to boot into the vista setup. I can get data files but want to see a program setting for access to internet (if that's possible), and that requires opening the program on vista, not the win7.

Msongs

Hi and welcome.

You can use bcdedit to set up a dual boot. instruction here BCDEDIT - How to Use

My girlfriends computer has a hard drive that shows as having faults on the computer health scan. I would like to swap out the hard drive for another but obviously don't want to lose the Windows 10 installation. The computer had Windows 8 pre-installed and she later upgraded to Windows 10. Is it possible to swap out the hard drive without losing Windows?

The computer is a Lenovo C260 All-in-One.

A:How do I change the hard drive without losing the Windows install.

Hi, as the drive is faulty, unless you have already have created an image of your drive (which we very strongly recommend e.g. Macrium Reflect (free)), you will need to reinstall Windows.

Normally replacing a drive - even other parts- does not cause an activation issue. If it does, contact your regional MS activation support line.

I have gaming laptop from Msi that lasted less than a year. I believe that my hard drive is badly made due to the laptops being mas produced. I also have two other built in hard drives that are not being used,I'm wondering how I can deactivate the faulty hard drive and run win 7 on one of the other hard drives. please help me!

A:How can I change which internal hard drive runs windows 7?

Hi and welcome to SevenForums.

I'm not sure I understand. These two internal hard disks are in another computer? What operating system is running on this other computer?

Be aware that you can't transfer the MSI Windows installation to another computer for two reasons:

1. It probably won't run.2. Microsoft does not allow transfer of OEM licenses between computers.

Also, please fill out your system specs completely, so that we can help you better.

I was recently copying a heap of files to my new HP Simple Save external hard drive and all of a sudden it wouldn't let me, saying that it was read only.

I have googled what seems to be everything and tried a range of options including--unchecking read only option in properties-using cmd.exe option to look at storage device and next to read only it said no-registry files - found some instructions to change read only in storage device options, but there was no storage device options, there was storage, but no option to remove read only-i have also ensured that i have enough permissions etc..

Some details about my computer are-

Asus F5Windows VistaAMD Athlon X2 64 (not sure if this is relevant?)

Would really appreciate some advice if anyone can help me?

Cheers

A:HP External Hard drive - files are all read only and I can't change it

From what I have heard about those drives, it is a problem with the proprietary setup of the drive. It is classic HP stupidity. The drive is coupled with junkware, which eventually fails to work properly.

I know it sucks, but I would backup everything off that drive. Uninstall all the HP software and drivers related to it. Then go into the Control Panel\All Control Panel Items\Administrative Tools\Computer Management\Storage. Kill all the partitions on the drive, setup a new one, reformat, and use it without all the HP junk.

After that, make sure to setup proper permissions on the new volume, and re-copy everything back. If you do not need NTFS security, then format it with exFat.

I have two 1TB drives, each containing 4 partitions, used for backing up 4 computers. These drives are regularly switched between buildings as part of our backup strategy, always having one off-site. I have assigned drive letters M,N,O,P to respective partitions. When I swap the drives, the drive letters get reset and have to be manually reassigned. I have tried several suggested methods of assigning the drive letters, including USBDM, but get no results.

Right you are using 2 different drives. Manually Assigning letter to one of them Restrict those letter from being used on the other. When you switch them out the letters have to be manually assigned again. That is how it is suppose to be. Windows Remembers each Drive serial # and or some other drive parameter and sees them as different drives, which they are.

The only way around it is to let Windows assign the letters automatically but that may not work on multiple systems if each of those system have different number of HDDs, Partition on the HDD and or different number of CD/DVD drives install in the systems.

Hey all, long time lurker first time poster. This site has helped me change many an icon and other simple customization tasks so I thought I would ask this here. I'm trying to change the color of the meter that shows how full a hard drive is. It seems like it should be simple, but many things never are, and this is one item I haven't been able to find any info on but I know its possible through windowblinds (however, I don't want to run a 3rd party app just for an appearance).

I'm attaching a pic in case I'm not clear about what I mean. I have a very simple black and white theme going on and the light blue bar just kind of messes it up for me. Is this possible with a registry edit or file replacement? Possibly a setting I've missed? Any and all help is appreciated, thanks.

A:Hard Drive Capacity Meter Color Change

Welcome to the Seven Forums

Yes that is possible to change that is just a image.

To help you out I need to know if you are using a third-party custom theme or the default Aero theme, I need to know this so I can give you the right image number.